Reportable Diseases & Conditions
Under California Code of Regulations, Title 17 (Sec. 2500), public health professionals, medical providers are required to report known or suspected cases of any of the diseases listed below be reported to the local health jurisdiction within the specified time frames.
Our Communicable Disease Team will arrange for specialized lab testing and disease investigations. We provide guidelines for treatment, prophylaxis and infection control. Reporting of some diseases may activate state and federal emergency response systems. Download PDF of Reportable Diseases & Conditions >>
REPORT IMMEDIATELY BY PHONE
During Business hours: (510) 267-3250 After hours: (925) 422-7595 |
- Anthrax, human or animal
- Botulism (Infant, Foodborne, Wound, Other)
- Brucellosis, human
- Cholera
- Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
- Dengue
- Diphtheria
- Domoic Acid Poisoning (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)
- Escherichia coli: shiga toxin producing (STEC), including E. coli 0157:H7
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- Foodborne Disease (when two or more cases or suspected cases of foodborne disease from separate households are suspected to have the same source of illness)
- Hantavirus Infections
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
- Measles (Rubeola)
- Meningococcal Infections
- Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
- Plague, Human or Animal
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- Rabies, Human or Animal
- Scombroid Fish Poisoning
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Shiga Toxin (detected in feces)
- Smallpox (Variola)
- Tularemia, human
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Lassa and Marburg viruses)
- Yellow Fever
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| Immediately by phone, report occurrence of any unusual disease OR outbreaks of any disease |
REPORT WITHIN ONE WORKING DAY
BY PHONE: (510)267-3250 BY FAX: (510)268-2111
TB PHONE: (510)577-7000 TB FAX: (510)577-7024 |
- Amebiasis
- Babesiosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Chickenpox (Varicella) (only hospitalizations & deaths)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Encephalitis, specify etiology (Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic)
- Foodborne Disease
- Haemophilus Influenzae, invasive disease (report an incident of less than15 years of age)
- Hepatitis A
- Listeriosis
- Malaria
- Meningitis, specify etiology (Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic)
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- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Poliovirus infection
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever
- Relapsing Fever
- Salmonellosis (other than Typhoid Fever)
- Shigellosis
- Staphylococcus aureus infection (only a case resulting in death or admission to an intensive care unit of a person who has not been hospitalized or had surgery, dialysis, or residency in a long-term care facility in the past year, and did not have an indwelling catheter or percutaneous medical device at the time of culture)
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- Streptococcal Infections (Outbreaks of any type and individual cases in food handlers and dairy workers only)
- Syphilis
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Typhoid Fever,Cases and Carriers
- Vibrio Infections
- West Nile Virus Infection
- Yersiniosis
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Immediately report occurrence of any unusual disease OR outbreaks of any disease
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REPORT BY PHONE, FAX OR MAIL WITHIN 7 CALENDAR DAYS
BY PHONE: (510) 267-3250 BY FAX: (510) 268-2111
MAIL: 1000 Broadway, Suite 500, Oakland CA 94607 |
- Anaplasmosis/Ehrlichiosis
- Brucellosis, animal (except infections due to Brucella canis)
- Chancroid
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections, including lymphogranuloma venereum
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and other Transmissible spongiform
- Encephalopathies (TSE)
- Cyclosporiasis
- Cysticercosis or Taeniasis
- Giardiasis
- Gonococcal Infections
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- Hepatitis B (specify acute case or chronic)
- Hepatitis C (specify acute case or chronic)
- Hepatitis D (Delta) (specify acute case or chronic)
- Hepatitis E, acute infection
- Influenza, deaths in laboratory-confirmed cases for age 0-64 years
- Influenza, novel strains (human)
- Legionelllosis
- Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease)
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme Disease
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- Mumps
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
- Rickettsial Diseases (non-Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), including Typhus and Typhus-like illnesses
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Rubella (German Measles)
- Rubella Syndrome, congenital
- Tetanus
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tularemia, animal
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| REPORT WITHIN 7 CALENDAR DAYS BY TRACEABLE MAIL OR PUBLIC HEALTH INVESTIGATOR PICKUP |
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